Goldene Erde Kalifornien

Originaltitel: Gold Is Where You Find It

1938
Approved
1 Std. 34 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,2/10

624

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, and George Brent in Goldene Erde Kalifornien (1938)

Hydraulic Mining versus Sacramento Valley Farming.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,2/10

624

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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Wissenswertes
In an early scene in which Jared Whitney (George Brent) signs a hotel register, the close-up of the register page shows that the names immediately above Whitney's are "Mr. & Mrs. Donald Siegel, Sonora Cal". Don Siegel, later to gain fame as director of Die Dämonischen (1956) and Dirty Harry (1971), and for mentoring a budding director named Clint Eastwood, was in charge of the second unit that made such insert shots for Warner Brothers movies in the late 1930s.

Patzer
After the office meeting with the mining syndicate in San Francisco, Whitney hands a letter to a secretary, addressed to Serena. The writing on the envelope is clearly different from the initial shot to the close-up.

Zitate
Enoch: [as the farmers go to the showdown with the miners Enoch goes back to take care of the horses] Well, we'll win, just like we won at Chickamauga.
Joshua: You boys all won?
Enoch: Well, if we hadn't, you wouldn't be running around lose!

Verbindungen
Edited into Out Where the Stars Begin (1938)

Soundtracks
I Gotta Get Back to My Gal
(1937) (uncredited)
Music by M.K. Jerome
Lyrics by Jack Scholl
Sung a cappella by George 'Gabby' Hayes as "I'll Never Be Fooled By a Gal"

I generally agree with the majority of my fellow IMDBers that in their understandable zeal to tell a late Depression era, populist story where the villain is Big Mining (as personified by Barton MacLane and Sidney Toler) scenarists Robert Buckner and Warren Duff forgot to make their characters interesting. The result is fairly long stretches of boredom involving a really dull love story between George Brent and Olivia DeHavilland and a tepid father/son conflict between Claude Raines and eternal spoiled brat Tim Holt. The movie does come alive at certain points. Michael Curtiz is too good an action director for it not to. I love the denouement with the evil hydraulic miners drowning in their own watery muck. Truly an ending that would have pleased Frank Norris. But in general this is pretty much low grade schlock. And can we please lose the gratuitous racism, please? Solid C.